Don’t believe the hype.

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Don’t believe the hype.

Like many things to do with the death of this A list actress, family members routinely go for the money rather than any sense of reality.

In this particular case, it is about protecting inheritance more than anything else.

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood’s daughter says Robert Wagner didn’t kill her

Film star Natalie Wood has been dead nearly 40 years, but her ghost still casts a long shadow — and it’s going to walk the earth again as her eldest daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, simultaneously releases a new memoir and a new documentary.

The documentary, “Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind,” debuts May 5 on HBO and creates an affectionate portrait of Wood’s at-home life with actor Robert Wagner, whom she married twice, and her two children in their Beverly Hills, Calif., home. Natasha was 11 years old and summoned from a sleepover at a friend’s house when her 43-year-old mother’s lifeless body was found in the water off Catalina Island after Thanksgiving in 1981. Her youngest sister Courtney, Wood’s daughter by Robert, was only 7 years old.

“The day my mom died, my entire world was shattered,” Natasha says in the HBO documentary, which also features interviews with Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and more. “Since then, there’s been so much focus on how she died that has overshadowed who she was as a person.” She does, however, ask Robert point-blank in the film, “What do we think about reopening this case?”

The drowning was ruled an accident, but rumors have surfaced for years, blaming Robert, now 90, for her death. The couple was on board their yacht, the Splendour, on a stormy weekend with Christopher Walken, Natalie’s co-star in the sci-fi movie “Brainstorm,” which was in production at the time. In the documentary, Robert tells Natasha how he and the “Deer Hunter” star had been arguing over his wife’s purpose in life after having consumed quite a bit of wine. Walken was in favor of Wood pursuing her career.

As Robert tells it, the argument between the two men escalated and Wood retreated to their bedroom below deck. When he went to find her, she was gone. After alerting onshore personnel and the Coast Guard that she was missing, her lifeless body was discovered.

In Natasha’s new book, “More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood,” she asserts that Robert Wagner would not have hurt her mother.

“My father would never have harmed my mother or failed to save her if he knew she was in danger,” she writes, according to excerpts in the Daily Mail. – Source